The initial results of an experiment to provide basic income for unemployed citizens in Finland indicate that people are happier and healthier when they know they’ll be receiving a certain dollar amount every month.
Starting in January 2017, the Finnish government chose 2000 unemployed people at random and gave them 560 euros ($842 CAD) a month. Although the main aim of the project was to boost employment numbers, the first results of the project that were released last week show it has been successful in a different way: recipients became happier.
According to Minna Ylikanno, lead researcher at the Finnish […]
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